Fitness Fellowship 2023: Week 36 Check-in
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sylvanwitchFriends, I hope there's a good week behind you and an even better one ahead!
As usual, please do share your fitness ups and downs with us here. We're here to commiserate, support, and not judge you. :-)
I'm down a bit from last week, maybe a pound? I've certainly been getting my exercise, particularly on work days, and I'm doing well with the intermittent fasting too. Hydration is okay--I have to get into a new bathroom routine, since my teaching schedule and classroom are both different this year. I have farther to go to a bathroom.
I've been good about getting to bed on time, though I can't always make myself go to sleep right away, and I've also practiced some mindfulness and breathing techniques.
My food choices have mostly been good. All around, it was a better week than I'd expected in terms of my own willpower and energy. Here's to another good week ahead for me!
Sending you all the good vibes I can spare!
As usual, please do share your fitness ups and downs with us here. We're here to commiserate, support, and not judge you. :-)
I'm down a bit from last week, maybe a pound? I've certainly been getting my exercise, particularly on work days, and I'm doing well with the intermittent fasting too. Hydration is okay--I have to get into a new bathroom routine, since my teaching schedule and classroom are both different this year. I have farther to go to a bathroom.
I've been good about getting to bed on time, though I can't always make myself go to sleep right away, and I've also practiced some mindfulness and breathing techniques.
My food choices have mostly been good. All around, it was a better week than I'd expected in terms of my own willpower and energy. Here's to another good week ahead for me!
Sending you all the good vibes I can spare!
Re: meh
Date: Friday, 8 September 2023 03:15 am (UTC)Yup! Nothing is as satisfying (or as easy) as total junk. I did make a healthy salad tonight, but all I could think was, "This would have tasted better if I had cheese to add to it. Could have used more dressing too." i.e. my healthy salad would have been "better" if I made it less healthy.
Re: meh
Date: Friday, 8 September 2023 09:54 pm (UTC)I do think, though, that the salad really would have tasted better if you'd added cheese and used more dressing, and it wouldn't have necessarily made it less healthy. It would've upped the calories, sure, but cheese is full of vitamins and minerals, especially if you're not talking about really processed cheese. Some cheeses are healthier than others (mozzarella and feta). And sure, store-bought dressings are unhealthy, especially 'diet' dressings which just swap oils for loads of sugar (that terrible addictive). But a home-made dressing of olive oil and vinegar or lemon juice (and maybe yoghurt) with some herbs (or spices) makes things taste really good and those more natural ingredients are also genuinely good for the body. Kitchen-made over factory-made is always going to be better for you. And if the salad is full of good stuff like vegetables and maybe lean meat, then why sweat a little cheese and a little extra dressing that might add extra calories but also adds nutritional value and makes you feel happier and more satisfied, which ultimately makes it more likely that you will continue eating salad in the long term, rather than junk food.
My personal take on it is that if you try to swing too far in one direction (the excessively self-denying direction), you just end up boomeranging fast and hard back in the other direction (the excessively unhealthy, unhappy, self-critical direction). A couple of years ago I tried to give up bread. I don't even know why. Everybody was doing it, I guess. It made me feel *so* unhappy and I weirdly started craving cake. I don't even like cake particularly. I just kept thinking: cake, cake, cake. Cutting carbs doesn't work for me and affects me emotionally, makes me really unhappy. I now swap toast for oatmeal a couple of times a week for breakfast and make myself salads for lunch that have brown rice or potatoes or stuff like chickpeas in them, and I don't stress about sometimes eating white bread toast with loads of butter.
I hope I don't sound preachy. I have my own issues. I eat well and have a good relationship with food but I drink a lot of wine and struggle to exercise.
Re: meh
Date: Sunday, 10 September 2023 03:39 pm (UTC)I agree with all of this in theory. I'm just not a very good cook. There's a restaurant that my roommate often gets takeout from that has a steak salad (strips of steak on top of salad) that's super yummy (but too pricey to do often especially when you add in delivery fees and tip) and I thought, "This can't be hard to make." So I watched half a dozen videos on YouTube about cooking steak and double-checked the advice with a friend who cooks. And ... I made an utterly mediocre steak that was very dissappointing.